> I think you would be suprised at the amount of > fuel most trucks and busses are carrying around. > You find out quickly when you go to a truck stop > and use the high speed pumps that deliver about a > gallon of fuel a second; it doesn't take long to > drop $300 at the Flying J. i had to ride a trailways express bus once, from montgomery, alabama to oakland, california .. 62.5 hours on the same bus. don't recommend it at all. but it was cheap, especially with a military discount back then. anyway, we didn't stop much and we never seemed to take on fuel. so the first stop after dallas, tx, which was waaaay out almost to el paso, i asked the driver about his mpg. he said he got about 6mpg on the open highway, where he could get up to 75mph or higher (and he DID go faster). so i asks about the fuel he could carry, and he just laughed. he walked back to the rearmost luggage bay and opened the door on one side ... inside was a 500-gallon plastic tank with its own fuel pump, controlled by a switch on the dash. whenever the main tank got low, he just refilled it from this big tank!!! made for loooooong trips. but then, texas is a looooong state from east to west. :) unca joel |
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